Implements can open up a pickup bed like a can opener, and cutters are heavy--have them deliver if that's an option. I'd try and find a trailer to use if you need to get it yourself. I had a '95 F150 that I wanted to transport a logging winch in, and had successfully a couple of times... I got it swinging and sliced a nice little 3" cut across the right well just from the momentum and the nice rounded edge on the support feet. Propping a bushhog between the wells sounds like an accident waiting to happen the first time it slides.
Just to confuse you a bit more: I have two 5-foot rotary mowers. Neither will fit into the bed of my Silverado 2500. They're too wide by a couple of inches. So, they'll have to go in at an angle, or set on top of the bed walls or on a couple of boards across the top of the bed.
OK, I am for some reason not able to wrap my brain around this.
In process of purchasing a used 5ft rotary mower. Weight of implement will be about 500-600 lbs.
So if I just have the dealer toss it in the back of my pick up, now what? When I get home can I just rachet strap or chain it to the FEL and lift it out of the back of the pick up?
It seems with my Boomer 24 I might not have enough clearance?
Seems a small flat bed trailer is needed?